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For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/for-americans-a-nightmare-escaping-wuhan-then-14-days-of-quarantine/2020/02/05/d303daca-4859-11ea-8124-0ca81effcdfb_story.html
An aircraft chartered by the State Department to evacuate Americans from the Chinese city of Wuhan arrives at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. (Denis Poroy/Reuters)
By Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield and William Wan
Feb. 5, 2020 at 9:42 p.m. EST
The airport was a 16-hour overnight vigil of lines and paperwork and stress and delays, of squawking children and the worried well, all trying to board the same two planes.
Ningxi Xu’s name was on the list. But until the converted cargo plane was rising into the sky over Wuhan, China, she couldn’t be certain she would be one of the lucky Americans to escape the center of the coronavirus outbreak and make it back home.
With a blue band fastened around her right wrist, she became passenger 199, took her seat with her government-issue boxed lunch and face mask, and left on one of the two flights that landed in California on Wednesday.
One flight delivered 178 people to Travis Air Force Base outside Sacramento. The other landed there, then went on to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where about 170 people exited. Two more flights are leaving Wuhan and arriving in the United States on Thursday. An additional 195 people who arrived Jan. 28 are quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.
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An aircraft chartered by the State Department to evacuate Americans from the Chinese city of Wuhan arrives at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. (Denis Poroy/Reuters)
By Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield and William Wan
Feb. 5, 2020 at 9:42 p.m. EST
The airport was a 16-hour overnight vigil of lines and paperwork and stress and delays, of squawking children and the worried well, all trying to board the same two planes.
Ningxi Xu’s name was on the list. But until the converted cargo plane was rising into the sky over Wuhan, China, she couldn’t be certain she would be one of the lucky Americans to escape the center of the coronavirus outbreak and make it back home.
With a blue band fastened around her right wrist, she became passenger 199, took her seat with her government-issue boxed lunch and face mask, and left on one of the two flights that landed in California on Wednesday.
One flight delivered 178 people to Travis Air Force Base outside Sacramento. The other landed there, then went on to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where about 170 people exited. Two more flights are leaving Wuhan and arriving in the United States on Thursday. An additional 195 people who arrived Jan. 28 are quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.
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I hadn't seen this posted from last night?
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